Australia Gets Into Amadey Malware Backend, Cuts Off Access to 180,000 Infected Computers
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Australia Gets Into Amadey Malware Backend, Cuts Off Access to 180,000 Infected Computers

The Hacker News · Oct 27, 2026

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Australia Gets Into Amadey Malware Backend, Cuts Off Access to 180,000 Infected Computers
Security October 27, 2026

A criminal using the Amadey malware can no longer access or steal data from 180,000 infected computers around the world, including some in Australia, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) says. The agency's operators gained access to the criminal's operation's backend and cut it off from those computers. "The next steps that we took were to disconnect that Amadey controller from all those

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